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Modern and Contemporary World Drama - Critical and Primary Sources (Hardcover)
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Modern and Contemporary World Drama - Critical and Primary Sources (Hardcover)
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Bringing together 70 major critical articles across four volumes,
Modern and Contemporary World Drama: Critical and Primary Sources
collects scholarly articles, reviews and critical interventions
that are indispensable to anyone wishing to gain an understanding
of world drama from the past 150 years. Contesting a Eurocentric
reading or history of modern drama, the articles underscore the
importance of migration and transnational movements of dramatic
forms, and place emphasis on the transmission and circulation of
dramatic theories around the world. Modern drama is revealed as a
worldwide phenomenon in which a diverse array of artists and
writers participated and in which modernism is seen to have
affected all parts of the world in ways that are much more complex
and multi-directional than what has been assumed in Eurocentric
models. The four volumes are arranged both thematically and
chronologically to give readers a sense of how world modern and
contemporary drama began and how it has been studied in the past
150 years. Volume 1: Beginnings This volume includes essays that
describe various beginnings of modern drama. Instead of identifying
a singular origin of modern drama with a linear chronology, the
volume suggests multidirectional and multidimensional beginnings.
The geographical area covered in the volume is extensive, and each
essay describes different ways to conceptualize time, chronology,
and what would be considered innovative in dramatic writing. Volume
2: Theories This volume includes essays that address theoretical
questions of modern and contemporary world drama. In many ways,
modern drama around the world began as a theoretical endeavor that
questioned the fundamentals of the dramatic form. Like the first
volume, the second illustrates an array of studies that challenge a
singular interpretation of modern and contemporary drama. Many of
the essays provide practical applications of dramatic theories, and
all of them situate the core analysis in historically and
politically specific contexts, and the volume questions what theory
means to lived experiences in the era of globalization. Volume 3:
Movements This volume includes themes of migration, exchange,
national borders, exile, and diaspora, and the theatrical stage is
often used as a laboratory to examine key issues of globalization
and displacement. The volume also examines other definitions of
"movements," including political and aesthetic movements that have
determined the development of modern and contemporary drama. Like
the first two volumes, the third volume prioritizes studies that
emphasize the complexities of the global and cosmopolitan
experience and refuses to arrive at a narrative with a singular or
universal perspective. Volume 4: Twenty-First Century This volume
continues many topics raised in the first three volumes and
considers how the new millennium has affected the development of
modern and contemporary world drama. The essays in the volume
examine various developments that are commonly described with the
prefix "post," as in posthumanism, post-truth, postcolonial,
postrace, and post-nation. A number of the essays concern
uncertainties around the future of humanity in the age of
technological advancements and late capitalism.
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